Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 283
owly in a zigzag course towardthem. In his hand he carried a stout hickory stick,which he continually poked into the drift as hefollowed the high-ride mark. He stooped oc-casionally to pick up some object and drop itinto the pocket of his bedraggled linen coat. There was something uncanny in the… … there was such an eager, greedy look upon hissightless face that a queer little feeling of hor-ror came over ever)- one. The old colorednurse heaved a sigh as she whispered: Dat was a fust warnin ; two more, an poorold Hannahs time hab come! The passing of the blind man, and the gather-ing…
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